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THE SILENT ERA, 1888-1929

By: Kenji


Street Angel (Borzage)

Essentials, not just favourites. By year. Apursansar has already done an excellent list of his favourites, into the 30s, but i thought we could do with a compendium-type list too. I’m now going back to Louis Le Prince’s pioneering films in Leeds in 1888, rather than the Lumieres’ paying cinema presentation of 1895. See also RRegan’s list Silent Bob

My favourites:

Sunrise
The General
Metropolis
Man with a Movie Camera
Battleship Potemkin
Nosferatu
The Gold Rush
Sherlock Jnr
The Chess Player
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Zvenigora
Street Angel
Vampires


the great early pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché

Missing from the site (still too many!):

La Fée aux Choux (Guy)
La Saucisse (Guy)
The Heroine (Guy)
Story of the Kelly Gang (Tait)
The Overcoat (Kozintsev, Trauberg)


Coeur Fidele/Faithful Heart


Sunrise

 

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Edges and Ridges

2Mar11

Nice List. Thanks!!

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Kenji

30Nov10

And also, i've done a list for the 30s and then further decades

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Kenji

30Nov10

Yes, cos carrying on without a cutoff date would have made it more complicated for tracking later silents

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Umberto L.

30Nov10

I guess you didn't add Dovzhenko's "Earth" and Murnau's "Tabù" to the list just because they are off the silent era, having been released in 1930 and 1931... am I right?

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